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Huh, I was very lucky to have used the web before the launch of Mosaic, using the Terminal based Lynx bowser. I worked at the UK Forestry Commission research agency and we had Telnet access to a computer at Edinburgh University.

I remember when Mosaic was announced, so it must have been between the launch of Lynx in 1992 and Mosaic in early 1993. That's a pretty narrow window.

A year or two later I demoed Mosaic to some of the research staff, showing off some web sites with some basic Biology information and illustrations. It was a real struggle to get them to see the potential, understandably I suppose. I wonder if any of them remember that demo today.

Funny that this link itself is talking about the history of the WWW but uses AMP...

RIP

At this point, I can't help thinking it created more problems than it solved.

I read that momentarily as "WWII" and then I thought that when the first microcomputers were coming out, it was about 30 years since the end of WWII.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_8800

To put another way, more time has passed since the 1977 introduction of the Apple II, TRS-80, and Commodore PET than the time between the end of World War II in 1945 and those computers' debuts.

The WWW is 30 years old today